Subject: New York

• Stern Defiantly Promises Appeal in Burkle Lawsuit

  Only hours after a New York State judge tossed his defamation lawsuit against Beverly Hills Billionaire Ron Burkle and Bill and Hillary Clinton, former New York Post reporter Jared Paul Stern wrote to LA Weekly in an email, "We will file an immediate appeal. The judge's opinion was biased and disgraceful."

  June 18, 2008

• Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008

  25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement parties. Disco Vietnam's beat sounds invincible like summer: celestial choirs, twinkling xylephones that sound like the ice cream man's siren, primary colors blending. The answer lies in the coda--Pr

  December 17, 2008

• Prodigal Son

  March 6, 2003

• Doug Harvey's Favorite Non-Human Artwork

  January 2, 2003

• Thank$ a Million

  October 11, 2001

• Crown and Punishment

  July 1, 1999

• A Dollar a Holler

  May 6, 1999

• Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays

  This morning, the California Supreme Court denied a request to rehear its May 15 ruling that legalized same sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples can now wed, starting on June 17--the date set by the state. Now it's only a question if county clerks throughout California can quickly change the fine print on marriage licenses from a "husband" and "wife" to "spouse" and "spouse."

  June 4, 2008

• Clippers Owner Allegedly Didn't Like To Rent To Blacks, Latinos; Pays Record Settlement

  Tenants at some of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling's more-recently acquired Koreatown properties allege that the basketball magnate weeded out black and Latino residents in favor of Koreans who were perceived as being people who don't "complain" as much, according to one fair-housing advocate.Illustration by Mr. FishDonald T. Sterling allegedly pressured blacks and Latinos to leave his buildings.​It looks like the Clippers organization loses again, though: A discrimination lawsu

  November 3, 2009

• Queer Town: Proposition 8, A Year Later

  It's been a long year since Proposition 8 was passed on November 4, 2008, when the existing right to legally marry in California was shockingly taken away from gays and lesbians.Patrick Range McDonaldDays before Prop. 8 was passed, pro-gay marriage supporters took the streets in West Hollywood.​That soul-wrenching vote, however, placed same sex marriage, and gay rights in general, in the national spotlight, and brought forth a new wave of political activism among gay rights advocates and their

  November 4, 2009

• Orso To Close A NYT Eulogy for the Hollywood Power Lunch

  Orso LA​Today's New York Times art section has a nice obituary of Orso, the West Hollywood restaurant that will close its doors on November 21st. "Like Morton's, Chasen's and the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard, Orso -- loved less for its food than for the gossip on its ficus-shaded patio -- is soon to become the latest entry on a list of Hollywood lunch-and-dinner power spots that used to be," eulogizes the Times. Ah, yes, but we still have The Ivy, don't we? Orso manager Carter Cole

  November 4, 2009

• No New York Deli From Shook and Dotolo

  ​Jon Shook shot down a report from earlier today that the Animal duo are in possible talks to open a deli in New York City. "No. We heard the story and had a laugh about it," said Shook. He went on to add that they have no immediate plans of any kind to open a restaurant in New York. For the time being, it sounds like we get to keep the two of them all to ourselves. Animal, 435 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., (323) 782-9225.

  November 4, 2009

• Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Crime and Punishment and The Conquest of the South PoleMICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando Road. Monday evening performances are scheduled for 8 p.m., November, 9, 16 and 30., and include valet parking and a post-show reception with Kearns. $25. (323) 223 68

  November 4, 2009

• Blackboardeats.com: Serious Bargains An Interview with The Editor About The NYC Expansion & Why Everyone Loves Free Salumi

  BlackboardEats.com​BlackboardEats.com, a free email newsletter and website, launched in Los Angeles about six weeks ago. The site, which was founded by former Yahoo! Food editor Maggie Nemser, is based out of Venice (Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Monica) and provides subscribers with discounts on meals, bonus freebies, and restaurant reviews. Nemser plans to launch next in New York, in early January, and then in additional cities. Since the site launched, there have been about 60 local

  November 4, 2009

• Rachel Rosenthal: 83 and Still Swearing

  November 5, 2009

• Movie Reviews: The Box, A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare at Goats

  November 5, 2009

• The Box’s Richard Kelly: Button Pusher

  November 5, 2009

• YOU CAN'T SPELL LAUGH WITHOUT "L.A."! THAT WAS SO NOT FUNNY

  November 5, 2009

• For Those Still Sitting Shiva for Algabar, We Present T-Salon

  Miriam Novalle, owner of T-Salon in New York, tells it like this: when she decided that she wanted to go into the tea business 22 years ago, her mother looked at her dubiously. "Well," she said in a very New York Jewish accent, "are you at least gonna give them a cookie?" Thus, when Novalle opened the newest incarnation of T-Salon on Melrose last Saturday, there were cookies. And sandwiches. Farm to table soups, salads, pastry, and granola. E. CourtlandT-Salon​

  November 5, 2009

• Squid Ink Food Fight: Pastrami Battle, Langer's Vs. Langer's

  The ongoing heated debate between the food lovers of New York and Los Angeles, as far as I can tell, mostly involves a bunch of New Yorkers moving to L.A. and complaining that we don't have adequate bagels, pizza or even sushi. They don't think we have good Italian delis, or even decent Jewish delis. That last claim, though, was given a thorough smacking (like Manu Ginobilli to a bat) by The LA Times last month, giving credence to something we've all been saying for quite some time: that Langer'

  November 5, 2009

• Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard

  The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, points to the resonance of thick bass-lines dipped in symphonic candy. Miami's Robbie Rivera has the sound down naturally. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he taught himself how to DJ at age 13 and onl

  November 5, 2009

• INCHES reviews Mayer Hawthorne, The Anasazis, Robedoor, and Railcars (MP3s)

  In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good music deserves much more than a handful of ones and zeros. Read past installments here. Questions, submissions or suggestions? Email INCHES here. Chris Martins​Artist: The Anasazis Title: Intr

  November 11, 2009

• Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titanic's legendary Captain Edward J. Smith. It's possible, but I don't know for sure, that part of the job will involve rearranging deck chairs. "He's out there somewhere--a tall, distinguished middle-aged

  November 11, 2009

• Bon Appétit Food Blogger Bake-Off: Enter Your Food Pix Bring A Plate Of Christmas Cookies To Barbara Fairchild and François Payard

  Last year, Bon Appétit ran a slideshow of the best pictures of holiday desserts from national food bloggers. It was, to put it mildly, a rather popular slideshow. This year, they're going one better and holding a contest: the Bon Appétit Blog Envy Bake-Off. Anyone with a food blog can enter (although you do have to be in this country). All you have to do is bake your favorite holiday dessert, post the recipe on your blog, and submit a picture of the dessert to the magazine (baupload@bonappeti

  November 11, 2009

• The Whole World in His Hands: W.S. Merwin at the Hammer

  November 12, 2009

• Tiny Tim Returns

  November 12, 2009

• Sand Dune Park: Top Athletes Vs. Locals

  November 12, 2009

• Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

  November 12, 2009

• MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

  November 12, 2009

• Interview: Blacklist's Josh Strawn on Heavy Metal, Victor Serge and Irony

  Jammi Yorklow​ In 2009, there have been few albums that have grabbed this writer like Blacklist's debut full-length, Midnight of the Century. The Brooklyn-based band seems to be completely at odds with the this decade's dominant rock sounds. Where so many other have embraced minimalism, Blacklist creates a dense, dramatic sound, like The Cult before the band sounded like it cut its teeth on the Sunset Strip, with a pulsating rhythm section that hints at '70s hard rock. Where irony and pop

  November 12, 2009

• Construction Report: The Tar Pit, Coming Soon From Mark Peel & Audrey Saunders

  The Tar Pit, the bar and restaurant project from Mark Peel and Jay Perrin (Campanile) and new partner Audrey Saunders (Pegu) is set to open in three weeks. Named for the dump in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey, the Tar Pit is scheduled to open December 7th, according to Peel ("Hey, it's Pearl Harbor Day, why not?") with Craig Russell as chef de cuisine and Marcos Tello as head bartender, along with an experienced crew that Saunders has assembled. Chad Solomon and Christy Pope will also be partners

  November 16, 2009

• Billy Corgan Was One Creepy-Ass Child, Psychoanalytic Marketing Stunt Shockingly Reveals

  www.CharlesAddams.com​Our brethren at the Village Voice report that over the weekend, as part of the marketing strategy for expensive facsimiles of The Red Book--a recently unveiled illustrated manuscript by cultish psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung--our friend Billy Corgan was "psychoanalyzed" in NYC in front of a live audience by a live shrink. Ok, I know what you're thinking. "Wait," your subconscious is telling you, "isn't psychoanalysis a long, complicated process that bears no resembla

  November 16, 2009

• Q & A With Andy Cook: The Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood Chef Talks About Gordon, LA Weather & The Importance of Chip Butty

  Gordon Ramsay may have gotten most of the press at his eponymous restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood, both before and after he sold it early this year, but executive chef Andy Cook has been the one behind the stoves every night. We caught up with Cook recently, shortly after he opened Boxwood Café, the more informal dining room at the London. Cook, a 32 year-old native of Birmingham, England, had previously worked for Ramsay in England and Japan, and has been the London's exe

  November 17, 2009

• Charlie Beck Confirmed As LAPD Police Chief

  The City Council on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Charlie Beck as the 55th chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.​A lifelong cop, Beck was the top choice of former Chief William Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Some critics believe that his selection was made too rapidly, without enough public input, but the council has stood wholeheartedly behind him.Beck has painted himself as an old-school LAPD veteran who had a personal transformation in the early '00s under Bratton and as he t

  November 17, 2009

• Wierd Fest Hits LA Gallery Nomad

  Liz OhanesianBlacklist​ Check out our coverage of Killing Spree's Wierd Fest pre-party and our interview with Blacklist. Big city music rivalries be damned, if you want something major to happen, let the LA underground and the New York underground join forces. We learned this last week when Wierd Fest hit our fair town.

  November 17, 2009

• Annie Doesn't Stop: Norwegian Indie Pop Icon DJs Cinespace Tonight

  Norwegian indie pop icon Annie is back. Finally. With Don't Stop out today, five years after the release of her acclaimed debut, Anniemal, the singer/DJ continues her vision of shimmery dance pop with a subversive, underground electronic edge. Tonight, Annie will be DJing at Cinespace and so we gave her a call yesterday to talk about vinyl and club nights. Nina MerikallioAnnie!​

  November 17, 2009

• Spiritual Voice Of KCRW To Retire

  KCRW (89.9 FM) general manager Ruth Seymour announced Wednesday that she's retiring after 32 years running the public station out of Santa Monica College. She said she'll leave in February. Meanwhile, the college has already begun a search for a replacement.KCRWRuth Seymour​

  November 18, 2009

• L.A. Artist Allison Schulnik New Claymation Video for Grizzly Bear

  Allison Schulnik is an L.A.-based artist known primarily for her self-described "goopy" oil paintings of clowns or hoboes or vaguely yeti-like creatures. They're kind of multi-colored Bondo meets the nether-spiritworld. But Schulnik, who was one of the artists in the Weekly's "Some Paintings" show a couple of years back, is an animator and filmmaker, too. Her latest project is an arresting, beautiful, lovingly weird video for the Brooklyn-based band Grizzly Bear, "Ready, Able." ​ [Exclu

  November 18, 2009

• Q & A With Andy Cook, Part 2: Risotto as Object Lesson, Cooking to Jazz & The Importance of Google Image

  Andy Cook, executive chef at both Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood and the month-old Boxwood Café, has been at the posh hotel since it opened in the summer of 2008. As we learned yesterday, Cook, a native of Birmingham, England, has become very fond of Los Angeles, of its weather and its produce. Turn the page for the second part of our interview, and check back later today for the chef's recipe for wild mushroom risotto. Felicia FriesemaAndy Cook in the kitchen of the London West H

  November 18, 2009

• SF Edition: INCHES reviews Lazer Sword, Tempo No Tempo, Themselves, Young Prisms (MP3)

  In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good music deserves much more than a handful of ones and zeros. This week we're taking a break from our usual programming to honor the output of our West Coast brethren to the north -- all of our entries c

  November 18, 2009

• Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna's staging of Pasolini's 1968 film, Teoremat) plays as part of  UCLA's international theater festival at the Ralph Freud Playhouse; meanwhile at REDCAT downtown, there's the West Coast

  November 18, 2009

• Pop Noir: Interview FREE Download

  Jack Coleman​ Though twin brothers Joe and Luke McGarry have been playing together as Pop Noir for roughly five years, it wasn't until yesterday that their group, rounded out by drummer Nico Saavedra, released its first single. Those who have had the chance to catch Pop Noir at their fairly regular gigs across Los Angeles and Orange County will instantly recognize "DIY" as a staple of their sets. The song also serves as a mantra for the band: Joe and Luke not only produce their own materia

  November 18, 2009

• Defamation: Real and Imagined

  November 19, 2009

• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

  November 19, 2009

• Kiyokawa: So Sorry, So Good

  November 19, 2009

• Sounds of the Skin of a Rabbit

  November 19, 2009

• What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

  November 19, 2009

• When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues

  November 19, 2009

• Movie Reviews: La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, Planet 51, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

  November 19, 2009

• A Conversation with Baker Jim Lahey His Recipe for No-Knead Bread

  Sarah GoodfriendBaker Jim Lahey​Baker Jim Lahey, owner of New York's Sullivan Street Bakery and author of the recently published cookbook My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method, was in town the other day on a brief 2 day leg of his current book tour. He sat down with us to talk about the book and his no-knead method, popularized by a 2006 Mark Bittman article in the New York Times. Lahey is something of a bread socialist, and he talks about his no-knead method the way a gra

  November 20, 2009